Example Of Personal Narrative

This summer, I spent five life changing weeks in Quebec City with the Explore Program. I stayed on campus at Université Laval, attended french classes each weekday, and explored Quebec City in my spare time. For the entire five weeks, I was to speak nothing but french in order to immerse myself in the language. At first, it was intimidating being in a completely different environment from my home and speaking a language I barely knew, but the experience turned out to be amazing. I used to be a very shy person, avoiding anything I was not entirely comfortable with, and I was a little worried about going off to university. But this program has taught me to embrace new experiences and challenges because the outcome is feeling self fulfilled in the end. I now cannot wait to go to university and live on my own, take care of myself, and be surrounded with new people because I know that living on my own is fun, taking care of myself is simply life, and new people are friendship

Since I can remember, I have been overweight; however, it was not until I became 250 pounds that I decided to change my habits and better my health. I began this path by joining my school’s cross country team last fall. Practice was six days a week, two hours per practice, and I attended all of them. I may not have been able to run as fast as the other runners; however, I worked my butt off. By the end of the season, I was running up to six kilometers and received the spirit of the sport award. From cross country, I experienced the benefits of daily exercise and now work to maintain this drive. I decided to cut fast food and unnecessary junk food from my menu. I realized that eating healthy does not mean eating gross food; some of the tastiest foods are the healthiest. I feel so much more energetic and strong now that I have been on this pathway to losing weight and becoming healthy. My goal is 130 pounds and, although I am not there yet, I am on my